Ziona Strelitz

Ziona Strelitz, Social Anthropologist, Town Planner and Design Researcher, is Founder Director of ZZA Responsive User Environments and the author of Buildings That Feel Good and Energy, People, Place (2012).

What shapes a city’s identity? Who defines it? Is New York about individualism or community? Is Jerusalem about religion, conflict or cafés? This session looked at cities as diverse as these, plus Hong Kong, Berlin and Tel Aviv – at their DNA, and how it changes through migration, politics and globalisation.